To Kill a Mockingbird

Quotes about Scout's reaction on the Tom Robinson trial?

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"Dill, that's his job. Why, if we didn't have prosecutors-well, we couldn't have defense attorneys, I reckon."
Dill exhaled patiently. "I know all that, Scout. It was the way he said it made me sick, plain sick."
"He's supposed to act that way, Dill, he was cross-"
"He didn't act that way when-"
"Dill, those were his own witnesses."
"Well, Mr. Finch didn't act that way to Mayella and old man Ewell when he cross-examined them. The way
that man called him 'boy' all the time an' sneered at him, an' looked around at the jury every time he
answered-"
"Well, Dill, after all he's just a Negro."
"I don't care one speck. It ain't right, somehow it ain't right to do 'em that way. Hasn't anybody got any
business talkin' like that-it just makes me sick."
"That's just Mr. Gilmer's way, Dill, he does 'em all that way. You've never seen him get good'n down on one
yet. Why, when-well, today Mr. Gilmer seemed to me like he wasn't half trying. They do 'em all that way,
most lawyers, I mean."
"Mr. Finch doesn't."
"He's not an example, Dill, he's-" I was trying to grope in my memory for a sharp phrase of Miss Maudie
Atkinson's. I had it: "He's the same in the courtroom as he is on the public streets."

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To Kill a Mockingbird